Harry Wu

Harry Wu

male, 72 years old
Harry Wu is an activist for human rights in the People's Republic of China. Now a resident and citizen of the United States, Wu spent 19 years in...
Vladimir Bukovsky

Vladimir Bukovsky

male, 66 years old (United Kingdom)
Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky (b. December 30 1942) is a notable former Soviet political dissident, author and an activist. He was one of the...
Anchee Min

Anchee Min

female, 52 years old
Anchee Min is a painter, photographer, musician, and author who lives in San Francisco and Shanghai. Min's memoir, "Red Azalea", and her subsequent...
Irina Ratushinskaya

Irina Ratushinskaya

female, 55 years old
Irina Ratushinskaya (born March 4, 1954) is a prominent Russian dissident, poet and writer. Irina was educated at Odessa University, the city of...
Han Guangsheng

Han Guangsheng

male
Han Guangsheng, emerged as a Chinese defector in Canada during July, 2005 to support a number of allegations made by Chen Yonglin. Han claims to...
Alexander Ginzburg

Alexander Ginzburg

male, deceased (2002)
Alexander (Alik) Ilyich Ginzburg, was a Russian journalist, poet, human rights activist and dissident. During the Soviet period, Ginzburg edited...
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger

Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger

female, deceased (1942)
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger was a Romanian-born German-language poet. A Jew, she was a victim of the Holocaust and died at the age of 18 in a labor...
Salomon Morel

Salomon Morel

male, deceased (2007)
Salomon (also Solomon or Shlomo) Morel was a Polish Jew, who, between February and November 1945, was a member of Communist State Security, known...
Julius Margolin

Julius Margolin

male, deceased (1971)
Julius Margolin (October 14, 1900 - January 21, 1971) was a Jewish writer and political activist, an author of the book "A Travel to the Land...
Mischa Maisky

Mischa Maisky

male, 61 years old
Mischa Maisky (born January 10, 1948 in Riga) is a celebrated cellist who won 6th Prize at the Moscow International Tchaikovsky Competition in...